Zara Manzur is a London-based visual artist. Her practice is rooted in an exploration of displacement, desire and loss. Working across moving image, sound and photography, she traces the emotional and psychological tensions that emerge in transitory forms of existence – whether cultural, social, or metaphysical – and how these conditions can be expressed through a merging of the real and the imagined.
Her interests lie in weaving narratives that explore how suspension and estrangement disrupt perception and relation. Shaped as much by absence as by presence, her work draws on myth, haunting, and the uncanny as a way of giving form to the unresolved. By blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, her practice engages with both personal and collective histories, emphasising the liminal spaces where identity is continually fractured, undone, and remade.
Her interests lie in weaving narratives that explore how suspension and estrangement disrupt perception and relation. Shaped as much by absence as by presence, her work draws on myth, haunting, and the uncanny as a way of giving form to the unresolved. By blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, her practice engages with both personal and collective histories, emphasising the liminal spaces where identity is continually fractured, undone, and remade.
EDUCATION
2024 - 2025 MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image.
Goldsmiths, University of London.
2017 - 2021 BA (hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion.
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2026 (forthcoming) Barzakh (2025) – Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival – Lausanne, Switzerland
2025 BAKī ÁJĀ 002: ‘INHERITENCES’ – group show [curated by A’isha Odera] – Proposition Studios, London
2025 In Passaging – group show – Reference Point, London
2025 3to1 Films: Worlds Apart – group show– Reference Point, London
2025 Barzakh (2025) – Goldsmiths MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image Degree Show – Laurie Grove Baths, London
2025 through a glass, darkly (2025) – Within Here, Elsewhere – group show – SET Woolwich, London
2024 Fragments (2024) – Light Beams Under a Bridge [vol.9] – street soundsystem, London
2022 select photography works – VISUAL NOISE curated by RANKIN – Maryland Studios, London
PERFORMANCE
2026 (forthcoming) South Bermondsey Festival (SBF’26) with abi asisa – Ormside Projects, London
2026 act zero - life is beautiful ‘libiversary’ – EartH Theatre, London
2026 orchestra379 [v.5] (ft. aloisius, jasper maurice, abi asisa) – lost club, London
2026 Gasworks x Umi Ishihara present: Nocturnal Melody – Ormside Projects, London
2025 Wysing Arts Centre x Cambridge Junction [curated by Samra Mayanja] – Cambridge, UK
2025 life is beautiful presents: spiral into oblivion (ft. aloisius + abi asisa) – Ormside Projects, London
2025 Feedback Loop of Touch (ft. Bianca Scout + Cajm) – The Pits, Somerset House Studios, London
2024 [Bianca Scout presents] PATTERN DAMAGE – King’s Place, London
OTHER
2024 DoBeDo Photography Mentorship Program – mentored by Heji Shin
2024 - 2025 MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image.
Goldsmiths, University of London.
2017 - 2021 BA (hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion.
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2026 (forthcoming) Barzakh (2025) – Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival – Lausanne, Switzerland
2025 BAKī ÁJĀ 002: ‘INHERITENCES’ – group show [curated by A’isha Odera] – Proposition Studios, London
2025 In Passaging – group show – Reference Point, London
2025 3to1 Films: Worlds Apart – group show– Reference Point, London
2025 Barzakh (2025) – Goldsmiths MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image Degree Show – Laurie Grove Baths, London
2025 through a glass, darkly (2025) – Within Here, Elsewhere – group show – SET Woolwich, London
2024 Fragments (2024) – Light Beams Under a Bridge [vol.9] – street soundsystem, London
2022 select photography works – VISUAL NOISE curated by RANKIN – Maryland Studios, London
PERFORMANCE
2026 (forthcoming) South Bermondsey Festival (SBF’26) with abi asisa – Ormside Projects, London
2026 act zero - life is beautiful ‘libiversary’ – EartH Theatre, London
2026 orchestra379 [v.5] (ft. aloisius, jasper maurice, abi asisa) – lost club, London
2026 Gasworks x Umi Ishihara present: Nocturnal Melody – Ormside Projects, London
2025 Wysing Arts Centre x Cambridge Junction [curated by Samra Mayanja] – Cambridge, UK
2025 life is beautiful presents: spiral into oblivion (ft. aloisius + abi asisa) – Ormside Projects, London
2025 Feedback Loop of Touch (ft. Bianca Scout + Cajm) – The Pits, Somerset House Studios, London
2024 [Bianca Scout presents] PATTERN DAMAGE – King’s Place, London
OTHER
2024 DoBeDo Photography Mentorship Program – mentored by Heji Shin
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